She is on active probation for a misdemeanor larceny conviction. He, on the other hand, has a criminal record that stretches back to when I was in High School.

We should not, as a society, encourage summary execution as a punishment for pissing off your significant other. But not only does this illustrate how common it is for the previously convicted criminals to murder and get murdered, it raises the question of how a person with this length of a criminal record was out in public and subject to being run over in the first place.

The people who use check cashing places do not have other options. They’d probably use a bank and have direct deposit if they could. Taking money from their hands is probably taking all the money that they have, and they are likely to react poorly.

The story does not say that Suspect 1 was taken to the hospital for severe injuries, which tells me that the pack didn’t beat him senseless. While I have a certain sympathy for beating robbers to within an inch of their lives, it is probably best that they turned him over to the proper authorities.

Judging by that record, HE was the wrong people. Three separate convictions for assault on a female, along with possession with intent to sell, possession, communicating threats, larceny and possession of stolen goods.

He was a bad person. That doesn’t justify his death, but it certainly tempers my feelings towards his murder a bit. When you get involved in crime, death is an ordinary business hazard. It’s like rock climbing without a rope. Sure everyone feels bad if you fall, but we all know that you chose to do it.

When the gun grabbers scream bloody murder about “Gun Death™” remember that it’s murders like this that make up the majority of killings. They hope that you won’t look too deeply at who is getting killed and who is doing the killing. They are hoping that you are stupid enough to believe their implication that regular gun owners suddenly snap and start killing innocent bystanders.

The gun grabbers will delight in telling us how yet another murder happened to a person who “knew his killer.” They will be overjoyed to learn that once again, a gun was used to kill a “member of the family” rather than an intruder. They will dance about in the blood of the dead brother trying to convince everyone that they need to fear their family members with guns more than they need to fear random attack. They will never point out to you that the killer in this case was a known criminal.

It’s just like you would imagine. The sort of person who runs about screaming at people while waving a semi-auto rifle at them has a criminal record already. The guy who loaned him the rifle was a felon, and it was illegal for him to possess the rifle.

Don’t worry though. The local gun grabbers will demand that people like you and me be punished and our rights further limited to “prevent” future crimes like this. As if more laws will slow down the criminals who are perfectly happy breaking the laws we already have.

But with all the other charges he’s been convicted of it looks like it’s only be accident that he’s never been convicted of a felony.

So let’s see, a criminal, shoots two other criminals, one of whom dies. And this is somehow the fault of the law abiding gun owners? Who wants to bet that the gun grabbers will tell us that this all can be fixed with yet more ineffective laws that only affect the law abiding?